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Reclaiming Critical Remix Video: The Role of Sampling in Transformative Works Owen Gallagher 9780367886455
SciFier: £41.13Remix is now considered by many to be a form of derivative work, but such generalizations have resulted in numerous non-commercial remixes being wrongfully accused of copyright infringement... -
Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements Jun Okada 9780813565026
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £92.49The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In... -
Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games: Cognitive Approaches Kathrin Fahlenbrach 9780815386520
SciFier: £48.76In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur not only in... -
Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play Thomas P. Oates 9780253014993
RRP: £62.00SciFier: £49.55In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of... -
Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures P. Szczepanik 9781137282170
SciFier: £92.99Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film,... -
Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street L. Robinson 9781349334438
SciFier: £46.99The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in... -
Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street L. Robinson 9780230298293
SciFier: £46.99The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in... -
DestinyQuest: Tides of Terror Combat Pad by Michael J. Ward
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.37BRING THE FIGHT TO YOUR FOES! Charge into battle with the official Tides of Terror Combat Pad - the perfect way to keep track of your team and all their heroic conquests. Inside this volume you... -
The Craft and Science of Game Design: A Video Game Designer's Manual Philippe O'Connor 9780367562458
SciFier: £93.00The Craft and Science of Game Design: A Video Game Designer's Manual goes into the nuts and bolts of video game development from the perspective of a veteran designer with more than 20 years of... -
A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry Ergin Bulut 9781501746529
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £95.49A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video... -
Film and Video Editing Theory: How Editing Creates Meaning Michael Frierson 9781138202078
SciFier: £44.43Film and Video Editing Theory offers an accessible, introductory guide to the practices used to create meaning through editing. In this book, Michael Frierson synthesizes the theories of the most... -
Console Quest: Seventh Generation: A History of Video game Consoles Charlie Robins 9798867043834
SciFier: £7.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798867043834Author Charlie RobinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher... -
Console Quest: Fifth Generation: A History of Video Game Consoles Charlie Robins 9798866783915
SciFier: £7.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798866783915Author Charlie RobinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher... -
Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide Edmond Y. Chang 9781032468822
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and independent video games from Tetris to The Sims, Undertale to Animal Crossing: New... -
Leading with Sound: Proactive Sound Practices in Video Game Development Rob Bridgett 9780367535872
SciFier: £36.79Leading with Sound is the must-have companion guide to working on video game projects. Focused on the creative, collaborative, philosophical and organizational skills behind game sound and eschewing... -
The World Is Born From Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games Cameron Kunzelman 9783111282169
RRP: £18.50SciFier: £13.18The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. Cameron Kunzelman argues that the video game... -
Making it HUGE in Video Games: Memoirs of Composer Chance Thomas Chance Thomas 9781032022604
SciFier: £34.03Features titles in the book are household names across the planet. Everyone knows Lord of the Rings. Everyone knows Marvel. Everyone knows Star Wars.Includes chapters alternate between professional... -
Console Quest: Sixth Generation: A History of Video Game Consoles Charlie Robins 9798866876853
SciFier: £7.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798866876853Author Charlie RobinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher... -
Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play Thomas P. Oates 9780253015020
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of... -
Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games Patrick A. Lewis 9780807183472
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £25.88Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the... -
British Music Videos 1966 - 2016: Genre, Authenticity and Art Emily Caston 9781474435321
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major new analysis of music videos from 1966-2016,... -
Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art Paul Hegarty (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781623562694
SciFier: £31.99This is a book about video art, and about sound art.The thesis is that sound first entered the gallery via the video art of the 1960s and in so doing, created an unexpected noise. The early part of... -
Invasion of the Space Invaders by Martin Amis
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.94Back in a facsimile edition is Martin Amis's closet passion project, first published in 1982: a compulsive gamer's guide to arcades and beating your younger self's high scoreIn this offbeat book,... -
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games Jeffrey G. Snodgrass 9780520384361
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves-avatars-can play in our lives. The use of avatars can... -
The Craft and Science of Game Design: A Video Game Designer's Manual Philippe O'Connor 9780367556532
SciFier: £45.46The Craft and Science of Game Design: A Video Game Designer's Manual goes into the nuts and bolts of video game development from the perspective of a veteran designer with more than 20 years of... -
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism Feng-Mei Heberer 9781517914806
RRP: £83.00SciFier: £65.87Does media representation advance racial justice? While the past decade has witnessed a push for increased diversity in visual media, Asians on Demand grapples with the pressing question of whether... -
The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games by Dr Gabriele Aroni (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
SciFier: £31.99Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis. This book investigates the architecture of video games, the... -
Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games Patrick A. Lewis 9780807182598
RRP: £56.00SciFier: £43.43Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the... -
Video Game Amigurumi: 20+ Crochet Companions for Players and Fans Lee Sartori 9781835418574
Titan BooksRRP: £19.99SciFier: £13.44Create amazing amigurumi of some of the most iconic and beloved characters, creatures, and items from video game history-from Street Fighter's Ryu and Final Fantasy's Chocobo to Super Mario Kart... -
Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art S. Dodds 9780333801451
SciFier: £92.99Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyzes a selection of case studies... -
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher A. Paul 9781517900410
SciFier: £20.99An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy's negative contribution to video game culture-and what can be done about it Video games have brought entertainment, education, and innovation... -
Women and Video Game Modding: Essays on Gender and the Digital Community Bridget Whelan 9781476667430
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81The world of video games has long revolved around a subset of its player base-straight, white males aged 18-25. Highly gendered marketing in the late 1990s and early 2000s widened the gap between... -
Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video and Art Timothy Murray 9780415157896
SciFier: £44.60In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between... -
Compression for Great Video and Audio: Master Tips and Common Sense Ben Waggoner 9780240812137
SciFier: £54.80Learn how to compress video and audio with optimal quality and minimal hassles. Renowned expert Ben Waggoner teaches you to improve the quality of your final content and develop effective workflows... -
Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements Jun Okada 9780813565019
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £24.99The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In... -
How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games Bo Ruberg 9781479831999
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £58.25What video games teach us about building a better world What does it mean to build a world? Worldbuilding is traditionally understood as an expression of storytelling across media forms. Yet, as... -
A Tale Of Two Halves: The History of Football Video Games (Captain's Edition) by Bitmap Books
SciFier: £47.90Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738401543Author Bitmap BooksFormat HardbackPage Count 628Imprint Bitmap BooksPublisher Bitmap Books -
Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video Glen M. Mimura 9780816648313
SciFier: £26.03An interpretive history of Asian American independent media since the 1960sAsian American filmmakers and video artists have created a substantial, diverse, and challenging body of work that... -
Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling: The Dynamic Game Character Joleen Blom 9781041190219
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in... -
Pokemon Mini Mazes Farshore 9781405296304
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £4.99Go maze-crazy with Ash, Pikachu and all their Pokemon pals! Travel around the Alola region and meet the colourful bunch of Pokemon that inhabit its islands...